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Why else would you want to demolish and change parts of the White House unless you planned to stay there forever?
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Lisa Murkowski: "The Congress is adrift. It’s like we have given up."

LIKE? You DID give up--about 37 weeks ago.
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I bet face separation REALLY hurts
September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Nexstar just caved, not long after Sinclair. KIMMEL WINS.
September 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
[artwork by Rebecca Chew]
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
From the NY Times, the response of someone in a survey when asked to explain why they are "against Democrats." Is this person stupid? Or just being fundamentally honest? 😄
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Trump was telling only part of the truth when he said he hates his opponents: he hates his supporters too.
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hegseth commemorates D-Day
June 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Moron assaults an illiterate man and then attempts to foil his testimony by...writing a threatening letter to Trump and pretending it came from that man. 😡

fox11online.com/news/crime/m...
Milwaukee man framed immigrant as would-be Trump assassin to prevent testimony: Officials
Officials say Demetric Scott admitted to impersonating Ramon Morales-Reyes while writing letters threatening to assassinate Trump.
fox11online.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Serious question: Does EVERY. SINGLE. ad break on MSNBC include a commercial for "Dell AI with Intel"?? I think I've seen or heard it 10 times in the past 45 minutes. 😡
April 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Along with all their other forms of incompetence, apparently no one in the WH can read.

"The Trump administration’s reaction appeared to be based on a misinterpretation of internal plans being considered by Amazon, rather than a final decision made by the company."

apnews.com/article/amaz...
Amazon is not planning to break out tariff costs online as White House attacks potential move
Amazon is not planning to list added tariff costs next to product prices on its site — despite speculation as well as fiery comments from Trump’s White House.
apnews.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu.

This is one of my favorite DT moments of all time--a full-on blast of David's erudition and amazing sense of humor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuoB...
PERE UBU - 01 My Theory Of Spontaneous Combustion
YouTube video by Dig it! Dusty Grooves
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Breaking news from Upside-Down World
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump is now releasing executive orders targeting private citizens for DOJ investigation simply for expressing themselves.

Fuck Donald Trump.
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Eddie Glaude on MSNBC, characterizing Trump voters: " 'We elected a felon because we didn't want to elect a black woman. And now we are willing to throw our republic away rather than to have had that happen.' "
April 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The tariffs can have knock-on effects for US businesses that have nothing to do with hardware. For example, websites that sell ads to international companies are likely to see a dropoff in ad revenue: why would those companies advertise to us when we can't afford their products?
April 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
AP News: "He landed in Marine One and was picked up in a golf cart driven by his son Eric."
April 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
World stock markets since Jan. 20 (from NY Times). The heavy black line at the bottom is the US stock market.
April 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I'm finally starting to get it.

The people who know they're lying are not their intended audience.

The only people they expect to believe their lies are the people who voted for them.

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-attor...
Trump’s Attorney General Wants More Government Use of Signal: ‘Very Safe Way to Communicate’
Pam Bondi said she’s confident journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was simply added to the Yemen attack group chat by mistake.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Wonder how 2017 Trump is feeling about 2025 Hegseth. www.cnbc.com/video/2017/0...
Trump: America's enemies must never know our plans
President Trump addresses the nation about a course of action in Afghanistan.
www.cnbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Aspiring dictator can't even cop to initiating one of the main crimes he campaigned on saying he would commit.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...
Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...
www.cnn.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Grifter gets grifted by his own grift. 😂

"[RFK Jr.] instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down a web page that mimicked the design of the [CDC website] but laid out a case that vaccines cause autism."

nytimes.com/2025/03/22/health/cdc-kennedy-vaccine-disinformation.html
Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
Children’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
At last, some people associated with the Trump administration have revealed a situation in which they believe in masking.
March 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Marco Rubio is a fucking pig.
Attorneys challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act inform a federal judge that El Salvador's strongman is laughing at his order to send back the planes — and defendant Marco Rubio is laughing along with him.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
(from @iamblakeley.bsky.social )

"You don't have the fucking right in this country to just plainclothes-arrest someone, snatch them and kidnap them off the street, not tell his wife where you're taking him, . . . not identify yourself, not have a warrant."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQpa...
ACLU Releases Video of Mahmoud Khalil
YouTube video by iamblakeley
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM